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crank0271@lemmy.world 5 days ago
“No” is the correct answer, but to understand why, you need to learn a bit about how mail and other services work. For email specifically, when you send email to an address (in this case, Maria2007@sh.itjust.works), the sender’s mail server does a DNS lookup for the recipient domain (in this case, sh.itjust.works). The MX record indicates the next hop for where to send that email to. The recipient’s side needs to have a server configured that knows what to do with that email. So there’s no reason that the operator of the domain couldn’t also allow email that corresponds with your Fediverse user ID, but at significant expense and effort and no benefit to them. Mail hosting is a big undertaking and is a pain in the ass for a small provider.
You can look up DNS records, including MX records, using a tool such as MX Toolbox.
Hjalamanger@feddit.nu 5 days ago
But if one were to run their own Lemmy instance and mail server it would be fully possible? That would in such cases be a fun thing to do
crank0271@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Well, sure, but SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) and ActivityPub are different protocols. It’s similar to speaking different languages. It’s an imperfect analogy, but if you speak only English and someone came through your door and just started speaking Spanish, you wouldn’t know what to do with it and just disregard it (social and personal space issues aside). If you then created a new door for Spanish and staffed it with a Spanish speaker and appropriate signage, the English speakers would come in the English door and the Spanish speakers would go to the Spanish door and each of you would know what to do.
It bears repeating that administering an email service is a pain in the ass.
rikudou@lemmings.world 5 days ago
Yeah. Source: try mailing me at my Lemmy handle.